Vorobyeva-Desyatovskaya M. [Review:] Mauro Maggi. Pelliot Chinois 2928. A Khotanese Love Story. Roma: 1997, 88 pp., 4 Plates. – lstituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, LXXX // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 4. No. 3. September 1998. P. 70—71.
The book under review here is dedicated to the memory of
Sir Harold Walter Bailey (1899–1996). Not only Mauro
Maggi, but also all those working with Khotanese texts are
indebted to Sir Harold for his investigations in this field. He
was one of the firsts to undertake the study of the Eastern
Iranian Khotanese language in which texts, discovered at
the close of the nineteenth century in East Turkestan, were
written. This outstanding scholar has published, in addition
to his numerous philological and historical studies, transliterated
editions of nearly all Khotanese surviving texts from
manuscript collections in England, France, Sweden and
America. That were, first, Bailey’s students who continued
the study of these texts. Now, a third generation of scholars
has appeared — the students of Prof. R. E. Emmerick. To
this group belongs Dr. Mauro Maggi...
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